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White House Takes Action to Secure "Critical" Tech
October 19, 2020
The White House moves to protect technologies critical to U.S. national security, including artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and semiconductors with new guidelines of a government-wide approach, including tightening the country's export control restrictions on items that strengthen the militaries of other countries, such as China or Russia.
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U.S. State and Education Department Warn of China's Influence Operations within the U.S. Education System.
October 14, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos joined forces warning the heads of lower, primary and higher education institutions about China’s influence on learning in the United States, specifically calling out Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes, alleging that they are tools of the Chinese Communist Party's influence operations.
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HRW Calls Saudi Arabia a Serial Rights Violator with No Place on UN Human Rights Council
October 13, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on member states of the United Nations to reject Saudi Arabia's bid to for a three-year term on the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, calling out the Islamic theocracy's record as a" serial rights abuser" and a state that undermines the global human rights system.
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Turkey Resumes Energy Exploration in Greek Claimed Waters
October 13, 2020
The Oruç Reis, a large vessel owned by Turkey's General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration resumed its energy exploration efforts in waters claimed by Greece and Cyprus without a resolution after Turkey agreed to withdraw last month in order to negotiate with Athens.
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FORBES: The U.S. and Other Nations Ask Tech Companies To Build Backdoors To Encrypted Communications
October 13, 2020
Member nations of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance—which includes the United States, Japan and India published a statement on Sunday calling on tech companies to allow law enforcement to gain backdoor access to communication that uses unbreakable end-to-end encryption arguing that it poses “significant challenges to public safety”, including the safety of sexually exploited children and terrorism.
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